The Riot

Overview

When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.

Release Date

07 August 1913

14 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Cohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader
Mabel - Cohen's Daughter
Irish Neighborhood Leader
Irish Neighborhood Leader's Wife
One of the Neighborhood Kids
One of the Neighborhood Kids
Jewish Bomb Thrower
Blonde Girl at Garment Factory
Rioter / Cop
Man in Pool Hall